Types of Pasque Flower – Garden, Prairie, or Alpine

Choose pasque flower by habit: European garden, prairie, or alpine.

Choose European garden, prairie, or alpine pasque flower first

Pick the habit first, then the color. [1] A garden border front, a prairie edge, and a trough mat are three different beds even when the flower looks similar in a photo. Sun and grit stay the same on How to Grow Pasque Flower. Pick the kind that matches the bed you have. [2]

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European garden pasque flower

pasque flower is the usual European garden pasque — silky spring bells and plume seedheads for a rock garden or border front. Alba is white in that class. Rote Glocke is a deep red garden form. greater pasque flower and Pulsatilla rubra stay in the garden group. They are not a prairie native edge and not a tiny alpine mat.

Prairie and eastern pasque flower

eastern pasque flower is the prairie / eastern pasque flower, also sold as American pasque flower or prairie crocus. Use it for a dry native edge where you want an early lilac spring bloom on grit. It is the choose job for habit, not a second watering rule.

Alpine and spring pasque flower

alpine pasque flower is the alpine class for a trough or scree. Lady of the Snows is the spring white often sold as Lady of the Snows. Slovak pasque flower and Crimean pasque flower are halleri forms in the same compact group. Expect a low mat, not a tall border front.

Shop names change. Read the Latin on the tag. [3] A red garden form is still the garden class, not a new care rule. [4] If the tag says Anemone patens or Anemone pulsatilla, confirm you still want Pulsatilla before you plant.

Match European garden, prairie, or alpine pasque flower before you plant. A border front and a trough mat are not the same bed.